Mozart - Serenades | Nimbus NI7116

Mozart - Serenades

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Label: Nimbus

Cat No: NI7116

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Orchestral

Release Date: 3rd April 2026

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“José-Luis Garcia was leader / director of the English Chamber Orchestra from 1973. Over his 20 year association he was involved in hundreds of recordings, many with the leading soloists and conductors of the twentieth century. This collection of Mozart Serenades was made in December 1982 at the dawn of the digital era, when all standard repertoire was being re-recorded. It was immediately released on LP but not subsequently issued on CD. As a performer Garcia maintained a distance between the prevailing twentieth century approach to the performance of Baroque and early Classical music, and the emerging ‘authentic’ practices. His Mozart his elegant, sophisticated and played by an orchestra at their very best.

“This recording was made in December 1982 at a time when record label planning was dominated by the demand for new digital recordings of standard repertoire. It has rightly been described as a boom time, when orchestras, conductors, chamber groups and soloists spent the majority of their days in the studio revisiting the bread-and-butter favourites of the literature. Nimbus was therefore open to the suggestion from John Boyden that he record for us some Mozart Serenades with the ECO. The recording was released on LP in 1984 but was never released on CD. Looking back on that time I suppose that by 1984 we were putting all our energies behind our new, exclusive relationship with William Boughton and his English String Orchestra. In hindsight it is a pity that the refined playing of the UK’s finest chamber orchestras at the height of its prestige has been overlooked.”
– Adrian Farmer

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